[mythtv-commits] Ticket #13084: ttvdb.py will cease to function - TTVDB will discontinue support for V1 XML API in 3 months time on October 1st, 2017

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#13084: ttvdb.py will cease to function - TTVDB will discontinue support for V1 XML
API in 3 months time on October 1st, 2017
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 Reporter:  Frederick Henderson <frederickjh@…>  |          Owner:
                                                 |  markspieth
     Type:  Bug Report - General                 |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  minor                                |      Milestone:  29.0
Component:  MythTV - Mythmetadatalookup          |        Version:
                                                 |  Unspecified
 Severity:  medium                               |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:                                       |  Ticket locked:  0
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Comment (by faginbagin <mythtv@…>):

 I think I've found a problem while working on a port to 0.27. The xml
 output by the v2 version is missing genre and runtime information that is
 provided by the v1 version.

 Attachment nova-eclipse-v1.out was generated with this command:
 {{{
 /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -N 76119
 "Eclipse Over America"
 }}}
 Attachment nova-eclipse-v2.out was generated with the command:
 {{{
 PYTHONPATH=$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python
 $HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l
 en -a US -N 76119 "Eclipse Over America"
 }}}
 Note that nova-eclipse-v1.out has these lines:
 {{{
     <categories>
       <category type="genre" name="Documentary"/>
     </categories>
 }}}
 which are missing from nova-eclipse-v2.out. And nova-eclipse-v1.out has
 this:
 {{{
     <runtime>60</runtime>
 }}}
 while nova-eclipse-v2.out has this:
 {{{
     <runtime/>
 }}}
 Watch Videos allows users to browse by genre and Watch Recording allows
 one to filter by category. And the MythCenter-wide theme, for example,
 does display the runtime. in its "Video Info -> View Details" page. So
 losing genre and runtime has the potential to affect users who care about
 this info.

 I can see the genre and runtime information is returned by thetvdb.com
 when I rerun the v2 command with the -d flag (see nova-
 eclipse-v2-debug.err). That file also shows that debug support is broken,
 since it ends with a stack trace and no XML written to stdout.

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